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Fluffychat is mentioned a lot here as a good UI/UX alternative to Element. Just wanted to bring up another that I'm working on called Syphon. It's not at the stage where it can compete with Fluffychat in terms of spec parity or maturity, but I think it's worth discussing as an effort.
https://github.com/syphon-org/syphon
Like I said, it's still very much in Alpha and needs quite a bit of work, but the UX flows and design have been well received by others. Though there is an opinionated default UX and design paradigm, there is a focus is to make everything customizable and the theming options are growing over every release.
The goal is to eventually find a sweet spot between Discord and Signal and bridge the gap to Matrix between those communities.
I have a demanding day job and other obligations that keep me busy, but I spend nearly all my free time and every vacation in the last year working on this project. We're constantly looking for other contributors and there's several other ways to help including donations. Feel free to join the official room for updates to track progress and please feel free to reach out with feedback!
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matrix-doc
Discontinued Proposals for changes to the matrix specification [Moved to: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals]
It looks like some of the Matrix devs were thinking about using IPFS for the Matrix "media" repository. It's basically an object store where the Matrix server keeps images and videos and files.
Coincidentally, that spec change proposal looks to have been posted exactly one year ago today. Doesn't look like there's anything concrete yet, but still there's obvious opportunities for combining a content-addressable object store API with a distributed content-addressable file system back end.
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/travis/msc/ipf...
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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The Element foundation should use some of that sweet money to:
1) buy FluffyChat and some serious UI designers, because Element is probably one of the worst matrix clients in terms of UX.
2) fix decryption issues that happens randomly even by just using Element on the matrix.org server: https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/1721 as it's a real show-stopper one you hit it
3) add support for multiple accounts and identities (too many requests to list on the issue tracker), since federation is great, but it's not always wanted.
Disclaimer: I managed to convince a group of technical users to switch over to matrix. We stay for the principle, but not really for the experience so far. FluffyChat is the best client we tried on mobile. On desktop, I'm glad weechat-matrix and gomuks exist, because all the other clients "reek" to us. And even if you like the modern chat UIs, they're really not bug-free either.
Overall many clients and some severs to choose from, but I did prefer irc just for the simple-no-BS-clients alone (the protocol has nothing to do with it).
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The only section that doesn't end with "we suspect foul play but did not investigate" is a citation of [1], so might as well read that instead.
[1]: https://github.com/libremonde-org/paper-research-privacy-mat...
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The only section that doesn't end with "we suspect foul play but did not investigate" is a citation of [1], so might as well read that instead.
[1]: https://github.com/libremonde-org/paper-research-privacy-mat...
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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Fluffychat is mentioned a lot here as a good UI/UX alternative to Element. Just wanted to bring up another that I'm working on called Syphon. It's not at the stage where it can compete with Fluffychat in terms of spec parity or maturity, but I think it's worth discussing as an effort.
https://github.com/syphon-org/syphon
Like I said, it's still very much in Alpha and needs quite a bit of work, but the UX flows and design have been well received by others. Though there is an opinionated default UX and design paradigm, there is a focus is to make everything customizable and the theming options are growing over every release.
The goal is to eventually find a sweet spot between Discord and Signal and bridge the gap to Matrix between those communities.
I have a demanding day job and other obligations that keep me busy, but I spend nearly all my free time and every vacation in the last year working on this project. We're constantly looking for other contributors and there's several other ways to help including donations. Feel free to join the official room for updates to track progress and please feel free to reach out with feedback!
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Unfortunately, I don't, yet. Still waiting on a decent TUI. I had my hopes up for weechat-matrix-rs[1] but it hasn't seen a commit in two months so I guess it's dead. And so I remain on IRC.
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no, the "phonehome stats" i was referring to are the opt-in anonymous aggregated usage stats that synapse provides: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/synapse/ap... etc.
All the stuff you enumerate is metadata that your server stores in order to store your conversations. Until P2P Matrix lands, if you're worried about metadata, only talk to people on servers whose admins you trust.
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matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
🐳 Matrix (An open network for secure, decentralized communication) server setup using Ansible and Docker
If running an Ansible playbook [1] is "close to impossible" for you, then there are a few different companies who will host a server for you. Including the guys mentioned in the main article here.
Sure, Synapse's performance isn't great, but still. Last summer I was able to run Synapse on a 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM droplet from Digital Ocean. I had 100 copies of a bot running, each with their own room, constantly sending messages and replies to each other. With all 100 going at once, it was super slow. But with fewer bots, or with a lower chance of replying to a message, it worked pretty well. Not bad for like $10 / month.
Also, if you want light and fast, check out Conduit, the homeserver written in Rust: https://conduit.rs/
[1] https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
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matterbridge
bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)
You could use matterbridge[1] to connect & bridge the various new networks including matrix back to a client of your choice - in my case the same znc+irssi I've been using for a long time[2]
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The author appears to be working on the matrix-rust-sdk which is a dependency of that plugin pretty consistently for the last month: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/commits/master
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Please don't break the site guidelines like this. The rules are clear:
"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email [email protected] and we'll look at the data."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
This is for the extremely good reason that most (I do not say all, but certainly the overwhelming majority) of such perceptions prove to be entirely imaginary when we investigate the actual data. We're still always willing to investigate when people ask—but they need to follow the protocol and not post garden-variety insinuations about it to the threads.
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